Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tired of fighting the Spaniards, Abd-el-Krim, able, active, alert leader of the Riff Berber tribes, began an onslaught on the French on the south side of that strip of territory over which the Spaniards claim sovereignty and Abd-el-Krim exercises...
...final reason for this singular distribution of intellectual opportunities lies in the professors themselves. It is their natural desire to teach the advanced, the enthusiastic, and the mentally alert. Unfortunately the average student does not usually acquire so serious an interest until after his Sophomore year...
...fuel. Lieutenant Booth, , the officer in charge, had never commanded an airship before. Within two minutes after the accident, he had two engines running, the wireless in operation, and the airship in complete control. With the British gunboat Godetia to guide her, with every vessel in the North Sea alert, the airship fought a tremendous fight for 30 hours. In touch by wireless throughout this period, she sent in reports every few minutes, followed meteorological instructions carefully and even found time to thank the landing party at Rotterdam, when it was apparent that she would not have to land...
...wife, an attractive, alert and brilliant personality, told of a flying visit to Washington, where she discovered the reason for the State Department's action in muzzling the Count. Apparently it was that the Karolyis had been evicted from Italy by Premier Francesco Nitti for carrying on Bolshevik propaganda. The State Department neither corroborated the Countess nor contradicted her; it therefore was fairly assumed that her statement was exact. This made the U. S. Government's ground of complaint against the Count somewhat frivolous; for it is an open secret that the Karolyis were expelled from Italy because...
Connelly was born in McKeesport, Pa., educated at a private school and never went to college. Instead, he did various jobs for a newspaper and, finally, drifted into the playwriting business via Dulcy. He is short, alert, slightly bald, young, with a funny, short laugh that punctuates almost all his remarks. He is a parlor entertainer of great order and his acting has something of the pantomimic grace and comic pathos of Charlie Chaplin. His gift for making the witty remark might have been his undoing, for it is a rare one and makes for popularity; yet Connolly has kept...